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 A Mother's Sacrifice
My mom only had one eye. I hated her...
she was such an embarrassment. My
mom ran a small shop at a flea market.
She collected little weeds and such to
sell... anything for the money we
needed she was such an
embarrassment. There was this one
day during elementary school.
I remember that it was field day, and
my mom came. I was so embarrassed.
How could she do this to me? I threw
her a hateful look and ran out. The
next day at school..."Your mom only
has one eye?!" and they taunted me.
I wished that my mom would just
disappear from this world so I said to
my mom, "Mom, why don't you have the
other eye?! You're only going to make
me a laughingstock. Why don't you just
die?" My mom did not respond. I guess I
felt a little bad, but at the same time, it
felt good to think that I had said what
I'd wanted to say all this time.
Maybe it was because my mom hadn't
punished me, but I didn't think that I had
hurt her feelings very badly.
That night...I woke up, and went to the
kitchen to get a glass of water. My
mom was crying there, so quietly, as if
she was afraid that she might wake me.
I took a look at her, and then turned
away. Because of the thing I had said
to her earlier, there was something
pinching at me in the corner of my
heart. Even so, I hated my mother who
was crying out of her one eye. So I told
myself that I would grow up and
become successful, because I hated my
one-eyed mom and our desperate
poverty.
Then I studied really hard. I left my
mother and came to Seoul and studied,
and got accepted in the Seoul
University with all the confidence I had.
Then, I got married. I bought a house of
my own. Then I had kids, too. Now I'm
living happily as a successful man. I
like it here because it's a place that
doesn't remind me of my mom. This
happiness was getting bigger and
bigger, when someone unexpected
came to see me "What?! Who's
this?!" ...It was my mother...Still with
her one eye. It felt as if the whole sky
was falling apart on me. My little girl
ran away, scared of my mom's eye.
And I asked her, "Who are you? I don't
know you!!!" as if I tried to make that
real. I screamed at her "How dare you
come to my house and scare my
daughter! GET OUT OF HERE! NOW!!!"
And to this, my mother quietly
answered, "oh, I'm so sorry. I may have
gotten the wrong address," and she
disappeared. Thank good ness... she
doesn't recognize me. I was quite
relieved. I told myself that I wasn't
going to care, or think about this for
the rest of my life.
Then a wave of relief came upon
me...one day, a letter regarding a
school reunion came to my house. I lied
to my wife saying that I was going on a
business trip. After the reunion, I went
down to the old shack, that I used to
call a house...just out of curiosity
there, I found my mother fallen on the
cold ground. But I did not shed a single
tear. She had a piece of paper in her
hand.... it was a letter to me.
She wrote:
My son...
I think my life has been long enough
now. And... I won't visit Seoul anymore...
but would it be too much to ask if I
wanted you to come visit me once in a
while? I miss you so much. And I was so
glad when I heard you were coming for
the reunion. But I decided not to go to
the school.... For you... I'm sorry that I
only have one eye, and I was an
embarrassment for you. You see, when
you were very little, you got into an
accident, and lost your eye. As a
mother, I couldn't stand watching you
having to grow up with only one eye...
so I gave you mine...I was so proud of
my son that was seeing a whole new
world for me, in my place, with that
eye. I was never upset at you for
anything you did. The couple times that
you were angry with me. I thought to
myself, 'it's because he loves me.' I
miss the times when you were still
young around me.
I miss you so much. I love you. You
mean the world to me.
My world shattered!!!
Then I cried for the person who lived
for me... MY MOTHER see how important a mother is 		02/04/2012 10:33
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